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Counselling Tutor

127 – Recording Therapy Sessions

Counselling Tutor

Ken Kelly and Rory Lees-Oakes

Education, Courses

4.6 β€’ 636 Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 19 October 2019

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Reasonable Adjustments for Students - Feelings on Breaking Confidentiality In episode 127 of the Counselling Tutor Podcast, Ken Kelly and Rory Lees-Oakes look at recording therapy sessions. 'Check-In with CPCAB' then looks at reasonable adjustments that can be made by centres to help establish a level playing field for all students. Finally, the presenters explore the feelings that might arise in the counsellor and the client when confidentiality has to be broken. Recording Therapy Sessions (starts at 2.15 mins) Recording therapy sessions is a key part of most counselling training, as a way of your tutor listening to your work to ensure that you are fit to practise before you begin your placement. Qualified therapists may also choose to record sessions so that they can play back and learn from them, and share these with their supervisors. Indeed, Carl Rogers and his colleagues used to do this regularly. It is natural to find recording therapy sessions stressful, especially in the early days of doing so. Ken and Rory provide tips to help you become more comfortable with this: Practise recording in peer sessions so that you become familiar with the feeling of having a recording device in the room. Use the right equipment when recording therapy sessions: neither mobile phones nor dictaphones are well suited to the task; instead, search online (perhaps on auction sites such as eBay) for 'handheld professional audio recorders'. Before you start recording your session, do a short test recording and check that this sounds clear (rather than starting your proper recording with an exchange about whether or not the machine is working properly). Ensure that any equipment you buy is digital - so that you can upload your recording to your computer, and transfer it electronically to your tutor. When recording your assessed session, work with a peer who you have worked with before, so that you have already developed a therapeutic relationship. Don't worry about how your voice sounds - our own voices always sound strange to us when we listen back (as we're not used to hearing ourselves 'from the outside'!). You might find it helpful to listen to your own voice recordings beforehand to get used to this. When listening back to your recording, focus on your interventions (not the client's story), looking at your responses, the skills used, and their effect on the client/relationship. You can download a free Counselling Tutor handout on choosing the right recording equipment here. It is also available through the Handouts Vault and Counselling Study Resource (CSR). Check-In with CPCAB: Reasonable Adjustments for Students (starts at 16.40 mins) Rory speaks to Kelly Budd (Qualification Service Manager) at CPCAB (Counselling & Psychotherapy Central Awarding Body) about reasonable adjustments in assessment. Some counselling students may be neurodiverse - for example, having specific learning difficulties (e.g. dyslexia) or physical impairments (e.g. to sight). If these affect their ability to perform in a standard assessment, CPCAB can adjust the style of this to meet the candidate's needs and to ensure that there is a level playing field for all candidates. While CPCAB tries hard to make its exam papers as accessible to all as possible (e.g. by using fonts shown by research to be the most legible), you might also be able to have: a computer (rather than hand-writing) a separate room a reader and/or scribe an interpreter extra time special font types or sizes coloured paper. If you think you might need any such adjustments, it's really important that you tell your tutor as soon as possible, as they can take time to organise. Communicate what your issue is, how it affects your study, and possible obstacles you can foresee on the course. Each person's difficulties are unique, and so - while the tutor has a responsibility to treat these with understan...

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Counseling Tutor podcast, the must listen to podcast for students of counseling and psychotherapy.

0:10.6

Here are your hosts, Rory Lee's Oaks and Ken Kelly.

0:16.2

Hello, I'm Rory. I'm with me as always is Ken. How are you doing, Ken? I am exceptionally well,

0:23.4

Rory. I'm glad to be here. You have tuned in to the counseling tutor podcast. This is episode

0:29.4

127. And we're going to be starting today's episode by speaking about recordings of skills sessions. And there's going to be a super duper

0:40.4

download for that as well so make sure you stay with that one and that applies to you

0:43.9

whether you're a student recording for simulated session for that to be assessed or

0:47.9

a qualified counselor recording your sessions to kind of review those sessions if you

0:52.4

need to look back on them and to learn and grow.

0:54.8

Then we're going into check-in with CPCAB where today Rory you spoke with Kelly Bud

1:00.1

and that was on the topic of reasonable adjustments. Can you kind of give us a feel for what that

1:05.7

topic is? Yes, well, you know, not everybody's equal. We know that. And sometimes people need reasonable adjustments for things like maybe dyslexia or maybe a learning difficulty or if someone's sight impaired or maybe if someone just needs support in another way.

1:21.8

And Kelly Budd talks about what can be put in place, what they consider reasonable for a learning institution

1:29.9

or a centre, as they called, to put in place to support learners so that they level the playing

1:36.5

field a bit. So needed. And we end episode 127 today by speaking about a spiky, I guess, topic, and that is breaking of confidentiality.

1:49.0

But it might be a little bit different to you imagine, because when I'm speaking about breaking

1:53.2

of confidentiality here, we're speaking more about when we are required, when we are mandated

1:58.5

to break confidentiality, and we have to go ahead and do that but it's about

2:03.3

managing the feelings that might come up for us as a counselor and I guess managing fallout from

2:08.8

feelings that a client may bring on that as well so a really packed episode so let's get straight

2:15.0

into the meat of things and we're going to start off with recording your skills session and I guess Rory if you if you're doing this within a learning in your learning journey

2:26.1

You need to record those skills sessions your skills need to be evaluated before you can go into practice

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